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How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions
How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions

How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions

If endowments are fundamentally creatures of restriction, they are also in smaller measure creatures of interpretation and discretion. Universities should use what flexibility they do have to stand up for their programs, employees, and students – for the core constituents in a mission-driven environment – in this time of unprecedented assault.

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The Political Economy of the Current Crisis

The current constitutional crisis offers a new picture of what legitimate government looks like: rule by the boss, where professional civil servants become at-will employees, the threat of prosecution is just another bargaining chip, and statutory, constitutional, and ethical restraints are treated as tokens in a sucker’s game.

The TikTok Ban and the Limits of the First Amendment

The Supreme Court’s unanimous affirmation of the TikTok Ban reveals a dangerous weakness in the First Amendment: its failure to protect against government repression that targets the economic infrastructure of speech, rather than speech itself — precisely the kind of repression that is likely to be a hallmark of the second Trump presidency.

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Weekly Roundup: Feb 28

Six former members of the Biden Administration on a more progressive future, along with a collection of our most illuminating posts on administrative law and democratic governance. Plus, a call for recently accepted LPE-relevant articles, an upcoming event on Organizing Red States, a lecture by Sanjukta Paul on Economic Coordination and Competition in. . .

Weekly Roundup: Feb 21

Jedediah Britton-Purdy on the rule of law and the political economy of the current constitutional crisis, and Martin Sybblis on how offshore financial law promotes post-colonial freedom. Plus, a Save the Date for the Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference, a major policy report calling on states to prohibit surveillance wages and prices,. . .